List Your Favorite 80's Martial Arts Movies

[Chop-Top]

1. Karate Kid
2. No Retreat No Surrender
3. Bloodsport
4. American Ninja
5. Kickboxer
6. Best of the Best
7. Karate Kid 2

[kovacs01]

1. The Shaolin Temple
2. Clan of the White Lotus
3. Police Story
4. Dragons Forever
5. The Beggar
6. Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
7. Return to the 36th Chamber

[archie leach]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Mkl9rtttog

[Harry Caul]

1. The Shaolin Temple
2. Clan of the White Lotus
3. Police Story
4. Dragons Forever
5. The Beggar
6. Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
7. Return to the 36th Chamber

Nice list!  For #1 you are talking about Jet Li's first movie... correct?  The one where he eats her dog?  I ask as there is another movie from a few years prior called simply 'Shaolin Temple'.  As far as I can remember, no dogs are eaten in that one

Would Drunken Master count?  I don't think it was released in the US until the 80s... or was it the 90s?

[Harry Caul]

I would also add, 'Eight Diagram Pole Fighter' with Gordon Liu.

[Zorba]

I would also add, 'Eight Diagram Pole Fighter' with Gordon Liu.

That guy was great in the Kill Bills 

[kovacs01]

I would also add, 'Eight Diagram Pole Fighter' with Gordon Liu.

Totally forgot that one in my list.  It was an unintentional omission and probably deserves #2 or 3 on the list I made.  As for The Shaolin Temple, I was speaking of Jet Li's debut.  The story is much the same as the earlier film, but without Li, it lacks some of the punch (pun intended). 

I did think about Drunken Master, but did not include it based on its original release date.  It was definitely released before the 90s in the US because I had a VHS tape from the 80s.  The only western country release date listed on IMDB was for spain on 31 December 1979.  According to them, it was widely released in Asia before 1980, though I am really not sure the exact US release date.

[paul waines]

The 80's Re-release of Big boss, Fist of fury, Way of the Dragon, and Enter the Dragon.